After the sun sets it comes up the next morning, so saying someone is "sunsetting" something would be more of a long reboot than getting rid of the thing or shutting it down.

Why is this term used?

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"Sunset" is the end of a time period. When the sun rises again, it's a new day, the beginning of a new journey across the sky. If the Debut of a game is the "Dawn" of an era, the end of its life-cycle is the "sunset" of that era.

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